[Alex Epstein] Nothing should be more sacred to civilization than science–the method of going by all the facts, and only the facts,to reach the truth. And nothing should be more repugnant to civilization than using pseudoscience and smears in the pursuit of political power.

A couple of years ago I decided to stop arguing with climate change deniers. It was driving me mad. Spend too much time grappling with the convolutions of people like Nigel Lawson, Christopher Monckton, Mail and Telegraph columnists David Rose and Christopher Booker, and some of it rubs off on you.